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January 26, 2014 11:34:31 PM

I know everything on your ram gets deleted once you shut down your cp. But my question is this.

Is there any way to mod/hook up maybe 2 motherboards so that one maintains power and could actually have an operating system loaded onto the ram then the other motherboard access that ram like a boot disk.

Like a 2 stage shut down, if you wanted to turn the whole system off you would have to transfer the ram Operating system the a ssd or hhd.

But if one motherboard (or set of ram could somehow keep power to it) is it possible to use it as a boot disk? If so how?

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January 26, 2014 11:38:12 PM

I don't see the point of this setup (which probably isn't possible). Why not just maintain power to the motherboard running the OS?
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January 26, 2014 11:47:19 PM

what the hell for? maybe for some drug induced experiment but come on????
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January 26, 2014 11:59:26 PM

They make add in cards that allow you to use RAM as a physical drive. However they are not bootable to the best of my knowledge. Here is a pic of one.

http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/RAM-Drives-the-New-...

You could however run a virtual machine from one. They do make software that allows you to use the system RAM in the same manor as well. Good with Intel socket 2011 boards, heck most PC's will support 32GB of RAM which is good enough.
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January 27, 2014 8:39:48 AM

Yah @psykhiqzero, my old motherboard is a socket 2011 and can hold up to 64gig of ram. @Ijack So being able to keep power to this motherboard so to make the ram stay on, would use a great deal less power then to keep the whole system runnin at idle..

@alden to be able to do this would mean reads and write speeds up to 9GB per second bytes not bits. So by uploading an OS to ram on a seperate motherboard, it can use less power then a computure on idle and can but a couple video games an an OS onto it, so as not to wait for data reads from an SSD to RAM which right now is about 500MB per second. So RAM to RAM would be 90/5 =18X faster then what I had.

Pretty sure it's possible just need to get some advise before diving in.
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January 27, 2014 9:26:51 AM

I still don't see why keeping a second motherboard running would use any less power than keeping the main one running. Why not just use "suspend" or "hibernate" features which use little power and no power respectively.
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